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  • Language: Italian. Modern title: De triplici via (Italian translation). Scribal title: In comincia landamento delluomo in se medesimo quanto alla triplice uia per la quale si peruiene alla uera sapientia . Composto dal beato buonauentura. Author: Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274. Incipit: Ecco io lo descripta ad te triplicemente. Explicit: Finis ce el libro dell andamento dell uomo in se medesimo compilato per messer buonauentura cardinale . dell ordine de frati minori. Folio range: 1r-29v ** Language: Italian. Scribal title: Dell essere didio. Incipit: Dio ha . Essere senca non entita. Explicit: Sapere senca apetito . Deo gratias. Folio range: 29v ** Language: Italian. Modern title: Index of chapters, De triplici via. Incipit: In cominciano e capitoli dellandamento delluomo in se medesimo. Explicit: gerarchie de gliangieli . c . xxx . Laus deo. Folio range: 30r-31r ** Language: Italian. Modern title: Soliloquium seu Meditationes (Italian translation). Author: Ekbert, Abbot of Schönau, -1184. Incipit: Una parola secreta ho io addire ad te redescoli Christo Ihesu. Explicit: solido regno per tutti isecoli de secoli . Amen . Deo gratias. Folio range: 32v-40v
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Time Period
  • 15th century
Place of Origin
  • Italy
Description
  • Fifteenth century manuscript produced in Italy. Contains two anonymous Italian translations of devotional works that circulated more widely in Latin. The first work, De triplici via, or The Triple Way, is attributed to Saint Bonaventura. This work is followed by a short verse meditation. The second main work, the Soliloquium seu Meditationes, was written by Ekbert, a Benedictine Abbot of Schönau, in the twelfth century. A triangular diagram of the trinity is found on f. 29v.
Call Number
  • MS 5
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • cow_002_001
Keywords
  • Diagrams
  • Treatise
  • Pen-flourished initial
  • Devotion
  • Italy
  • Verse
  • Christian
Title
  • Devotional works by Bonaventure and Ekbert
Author
  • Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274
  • Ekbert, Abbot of Schönau, -1184
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Codex. Support material: Parchment. Extent: i + 40 + i. Collation: Q1-5 (8). Foliation - Pagination: Modern foliation in pencil every 10 folios, starting on folio 11. Catchwords: Horizontal. Bound dimensions (in mm): 160 x 117 x 14. Page dimensions (in mm): 154 x 113. Written area (in mm): 100 x 85, column width 35mm with 10 mm between. Script: Gothic. Script type: Textualis. Layout: Two columns, lined in lead for twenty-two lines. Decoration: Five-line blue pen-flourished initial on fol. 1r. Four-line blue pen-flourished initial on fol. 31v. Alternating two-line red and blue initials flourished with purple and red. Capitals heightened with yellow wash. Rubrication. Binding: Italian light-brown morocco, circa 1830 and box.
Language
  • Italian
Alternate Identifier
  • Accession University of Wooster 10811 (Accession number)
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • cow_002_001
Date Created
  • 15th century
Owning Institution
  • College of Wooster Libraries Special Collections. College of Wooster. Wooster, OH.
Bibliographic Citation
  • Ricci, Seymour de. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. 3 vols. New York: HWWilson, 1935. [Vol. 2, p. 1979]
  • Distelbrink, Balduinus. Bonaventurae Scripta?: Authentica, Dubia Vel Spuria Critice Recensita. Rome: Istituto storico cappuccini, 1975. [Pp. 22-23]
  • Migne, J.-P. Patrologia Latina database the full text database. Web edition. Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest Information and Learning Company, 1996. [Vol. 195, cols. 105-114]

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